How to Play
Ten rounds. Each one is a headline, a market reaction and your decision. All money and tokens are virtual.
Stay Above the Line
Finish round 10 at or above the survival line to survive. Your final value is your score.
The Basics
Every Round
Five beats, ten times. Nobody can trade at a price from before the headline.
- 1. Headline landsIts first price move has already happened.
- 2. Read the cluesLiquidity, dev bag, sentiment, momentum.
- 3. Make your moveBUY, SELL or HOLD, at 25 / 50 / 100%.
- 4. Trade fillsAt the shown price, plus slippage and fee.
- 5. Market movesSee what happened and why.
Try it · same engine as the game
Paper Hands rules: $100 cash + 10 tokens
SELL 50%: sell 5 tokens → ≈ $82.04 at $16.46 · slippage 0.26% · fee $0.25
Deep liquidity and hot sentiment give a whale pump more room to run, and trades fill with less slippage.
Trading Mechanics
Game Modes
Everyone starts at $200. Diamond Hands raises the stakes and hides more.
Event Library
40 fictional events · 6 traps only appear on Pro
6 Pro traps- Developer activity7 events
- Liquidity7 events
- Whales7 events
- Attention & community7 events
- Listings & rumours6 events
- Market conditions6 events
Reading the Clues
Tendencies in this sim, not guarantees.
- Thin liquidityPumps fade, slippage bites
- Heavy dev bagGood news = exit liquidity
- Hot sentimentLate buyers get dumped on
- Fearful crowdRoom to bounce
How to Play
🎒 You start with
- • $200 of virtual value, split between tokens ($10 each) and cash
- • 🧻 Paper Hands: $100 cash + 10 tokens
- • 💎 Diamond Hands: $0 cash + 20 tokens. Fully exposed from round one.
🎯 The objective
- • Survived: finish round 10 at or above the survival line ($100 / $130 / $160 by difficulty)
- • Wiped Out: finish below it
- • Score: your final portfolio value, marked to market
🔁 Each round
- A headline lands. Its immediate price move has already happened.
- You see the updated market and a quote for your trade.
- You choose BUY, SELL or HOLD and confirm.
- Your trade fills at the displayed price, adjusted for slippage and fees.
- The market then moves, and you see what happened and why.
⚙️ Trading mechanics
- • BUY 25/50/100% spends that share of your virtual cash
- • SELL 25/50/100% sells that share of your tokens
- • HOLD is free and never penalised
- • Simulation fee: 0.3% / 1.0% of each trade by difficulty
- • Slippage ≈ trade size ÷ liquidity × 15 / 30, capped at 25%
- • Your trades never move the shared market path
Difficulty levels
Everyone starts at $200, so scores compare across levels. Each step up raises the stakes and takes away information.
| Paper Hands | Diamond Hands | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting cash / tokens | $100.00 / 10 | $0.00 / 20 |
| Survive at | $100.00 (50%) | $160.00 (80%) |
| Simulation fee | 0.3% | 1.0% |
| Slippage multiplier | ×15 | ×30 |
| Market volatility | ×0.75 | ×1.4 |
| Events | Gentler set, no crashes | Full library + rugs, fakes, pumps |
| Information | All metrics, clues + coach tips | Price, liquidity, volume only |
| Daily Challenge | Own leaderboard | Own leaderboard |
Interactive tutorial
The calculator below uses the same execution engine as the real game.
Step 1 of 2: Same headline, different context
🐋 WHALE ALERT: a whale just bought $100,000. Price already jumped +65% to $16.50.
Liquidity: $480,000 · 🏊 Liquidity is deep. 🔥 Sentiment is running hot.
SELL 50%: sell 5 tokens → about $81.80 at $16.44 (slippage 0.35%, fee $0.41).
💡 Deep liquidity and strong sentiment give a whale pump more room to keep running. Trades also fill with less slippage.
Reading the clues
The same headline can play out differently. After each event you see liquidity, recent volume, the dev's share of supply, sentiment and momentum. These conditions shift the odds in this simulation. A random, bounded component means nothing is guaranteed. The simulation does not predict real markets.
Event library (40 events)
🔥 = left out on Beginner · 👑 = Pro only
Developer activity
- DEV DUMP
- DEV WALLET SHUFFLE
- LIQUIDITY LOCKED
- MISSED DEADLINE
- SUPPLY BURN
- TEAM DOXXES
- DEV GOES DARK 👑(Pro only)
Liquidity
- LIQUIDITY DRAIN 🔥(not on Beginner)
- NEW LIQUIDITY
- SPREADS BLOW OUT
- UNLOCK APPROACHING
- POOL MIGRATION
- BOT SWARM
- LIQUIDITY PULLED 👑(Pro only)
Whales
- WHALE ALERT
- WHALE TO EXCHANGE
- WALLET SPLIT
- WHALE EXITS 🔥(not on Beginner)
- QUIET ACCUMULATION
- WHALE LIQUIDATED 🔥(not on Beginner)
- COORDINATED PUMP 👑(Pro only)
Attention & community
- MEME GOES VIRAL
- INFLUENCER SHILL
- CRICKETS
- RIVAL TOKEN
- CRYPTIC CELEBRITY POST
- FUD THREAD 🔥(not on Beginner)
- HONEYPOT ACCUSATION 👑(Pro only)
Listings & rumours
- LISTING ANNOUNCED
- RUMOUR DENIED 🔥(not on Beginner)
- ACCESS EXPANDS
- DEPOSITS SUSPENDED
- LISTING RUMOUR
- PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCED 👑(Pro only)
Market conditions
- MARKET RALLY
- VOLUME VANISHES
- PANIC SELL-OFF 🔥(not on Beginner)
- RELIEF BOUNCE
- NETWORK CONGESTION
- FLASH CRASH 👑(Pro only)
All tokens, people and platforms are fictional.